When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
HENRI BERGSONWhen it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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